What does it mean if a business is Felony Friendly?
72Tips on Finding jobs for ex-offenders with Felony Friendly Employers?
Finding felony friendly employers when you are an exoffender, there are companies that help with job interview, job placement and continued rehabilitation. It interesting how no matter how much time goes by or how old you get or what life experiences you have there is always room to learn new things.
I was at the library the other day and was listening to these two men talk about how they were having a hard time finding flexible work. They complained about how no one wanted to give them a chance since they had been in prison. So the discussed with each other about being on parole and the like and then one of the guys said he was applying for a job with a business or agency that was "Felon Friendly".
I almost laughed outloud, but had to remember I was in a library and second I was ease dropping on someones conversation. It got me thinking about the word and how did it apply to a business that was not "Felon Friendly"I have heard of a software application being "user friendly" which I guess would mean that anyone no matter how clumsy could use it.I have heard of play grounds being called "Child Friendly" which I guess would mean they are safe for kids no matter how destructive they are.I have heard of a place being "Dog Friendly" which I guess means that you can bring your pets with out the owners kicking you out.
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So with this prior knowledge I would guess that if a business is "Felon Friendly" they would hire you and they would not hold your past criminal record against you. They would not say they can't hire you or that you could not work for them. I would guess its an attempt at a second chance for the felon to prove themselves by what they did from this day forward and not on what they have done in the past.
So this is my suggestion, why not list companies in the phone book or in the newspaper or on hiring signs.
Action steps Such as: Now Hiring and Felon Friendly Inquire within!
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I think this is a great idea, but I think it is more of a word of mouth type of thing. If your on the inside track, the list of felon friendly companies would be something someone you know can tell you about.Finding employment after prison is possible.
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13 of ex-offender or Felon Friendly Agencies List:
These are employment services that will work with you.
(These are located in California, but I am sure you can find ones in your area)
Accountemps http://www.accountemps.com/
Aver Business Management Inc.
http://yellowpages.vvdailypress.com/Aver+Business+Management+Inc
Labor Finders http://www.laborfinders.com/
Winners Circle Personnel, Ontario, CA 91761
Winners Circle Personnel, West Covina, CA 91792
Arrow Staffing http://www.arrowstaffing.com/index.php?c=services
Adminiserv http://www.jobscity.net/
Trans Force http://www.transforce.com/
Aliance Staffing Resources http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/careers-622145-Alliance_Staffing_Resources
Volt Services Group http://www.volt.com/
Rally Staffing http://www.ranchochamber.org/
Cameo Employment Services http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_fhpqxm
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I agree PK, this issue raised some questions about what is being done to address this situation.
Heck if you don't give the 'deserving ex-felon' a chance (one who is really trying to change their life) - then they will just be forced back into a life of crime. And what could would that do? There has to be a better system to reforming ex-cons into productive citizens. Your idea sounds like a good start! You may have just stumbled upon a niche topic/area to continue further research.
Thats what it is all about, people helping people.
My son made a mistake by listening a 14/15 yr old girl who said she was 17 and boom......csc 3 (attempted). Polygraph test proofed it wasn't rape, but by then it was too late. Yep you guessed it, felony. He has been trouble free prettymuch for five yrs. and no one will hire him because of the felony. People wonder why these kids go back to a life of crime or commit suicide. My son, thank the Lord, is still trying to get a job and he has been married, divorced and has a 2yr old son he wants to keep supporting. He's worried he will go to jail for back child support if he doesn't get a job. I am gonna look up this info for MI and I sure hope there is something in MI that will be Felony Friendly Employers. Thanks for letting me sound off.
Sandi - thanks for sharing your experiences, it is truly a subject that needs to be addressed and made more available, many people need to work and due to their past it puts up road blocks. Which with some effort can be overcome.
Hi Research Analyst--I think that Barnes & Noble might be felon amenable. I've looked at their job application (I'm in the market for part time work) recently--they participate in the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) Program. I like how you come up with new ideas!
Thanks, for sharing. that is good information you found about barnes and nobles.
I hope you guys are right. I am technically a felon. I took a girl home (she was 39) one night on a drunk night outting. We went to HER place, then to mine. A few hours later, I wake up to police with guns in my face. There was no violence, it was proven later that she was lying, yet getting the felony reversed is impossible. Now, not only am I a felon, I'm an RSO, the most hated in the community. I feel for the 17 y.o. above. Before, I was a professional banking manager and made good money. Now, Taco Bell won't even hire me as a dishwasher. I will look into the ideas all of you have and try to let you know how things go. Thanks for posting this stuff.
Good luck to you and thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the great post. I guess sometimes we get caught up in our everyday lives and fail to realize that therre are several issues out there that need to be addressed. Good for you doing your part in bringing this to the forefront.
Marc
I am a female 27 years old i did 3 years in prison maxed out no parole they just kicked me out and shut the gates behind me next week it will have been 2 years since they released me. I left wanting a different life. i did get a job in 7 days of release actually it was min wage so i got 2 jobs one at boston market and the other as a desk clerk for super8 motels. I have realized over time that i have to take the steps to get where i want to be. After working like a nut for a year i quit both jobs and got one great job selling cars doubling my money in half the time, i paid off my fines and went for custody of my daughters and won!!!! Now unfortunately my company closed down and economy is no help but i worked hard enough to be eligable for unemployment. Everyday is hard but i make a conciouse decision to stay focused on my future. Since the system is hard to get past. I will suggest targetting smaller min wage jobs 2 if you have to for the job history, then if your seriouse about staying out of trouble go to NA meetings, Raise your hand and tell them your problem, these people are all working functioning mothers and fathers who have been through it they know where to apply for jobs just give it a shot someone will know someone who can hire you!!!!
Maria thanks for sharing your story, it is a source of encouragement to others.
I had never heard the term "Felon-friendly companies" until the other night. I do volunteer work at a women's recovery house. Many of the women there have criminal records and are in the program as part of their release. It's amazing to me (and I do continue to learn) the programs available to help former inmates assimilate into the outside world. One of the women announced to the group that she had a big stack of "felon friendly" job listings. Especially in this tough economy, it really woke me up that not only are there companies out there who will forgive a person's criminal past, but that obviously someone or some agencies are actively assisting in making employment happen for these women.
Thank goodness, because as was stated above, it's not easy to turn your life around. We need to make it a viable option, otherwise felons will bounce right back into their former behavior and back into our overcrowded prisons (I'm in CA also).
Thanks for writing such a helpful hub, RA! MM
Hey Mighty Mom you are so right that its better for society to find a place for displaced workers so that they can help them improve themselves, it is great to know that some employers are doing their part in making a positive change in that direction. thanks for sharing.
I am so depressed. I am 40 years old. I am a registered Nurse and the only thing i have ever done wrong with the law is make a rolling stop at a stopsign and got a ticket- over 4 years ago. I met a man, got married and he had the brainy idea to bring his parents home to live with us. long story short, i didn't want this to happen but i was a newlywed and i couldn't say no. well. it came down to the 140,000 addition to our home ended up costing 280,000. lost all the money. his dad had a brain injury and mom dementia. well, husbands sisters said we stole all the money, 2 years later, state prosecutor took the case, we got charged felonys and now i have to take a plea. I will lose my nursing license and have no skills. my life is ruined. and guess what same now EX husband molested my daughter. and i am taking the fall of his parents with him. NOT FAIR. I can't find a job. and probably never will again. MY ex ruined my life. it seems life isn't worth it.
Ann - As hard as it may seem right now, this IS the time you are your strongest, because when things seem to be at its worst thats when you know you WILL regain the strength to move forward, you will find work again. So do not let these circumstances cloud your judgement. Stay focused and remember that you are worthy.
I am scouring the Internet intensely trying to find a list of "felony friendly" locations in my area.
Recently I needed work so desperately that I left the US to be a productive human being again, but due to the unnamed country collapsing, my wife and I had to return back to the States and thus here I am in the DFW area willing to do anything for employment.
I was given a website, Hard2Hire.com by one of the organizations that aid felons here in this area that lists jobs that either do not care that a felony is on one's record, or lists that it is a felony friendly location. However, I have yet to hear from one of the applications that I have sent in and I have found discrepancies with the site whereby a felony friendly advisement may be given for a company, but after going on the applicaton site the company advertises "NO FELONIES."
Normally I am very upbeat, positive, and encourage others that all will be okay, and perhaps I am just having my moment of discouragement, but I am really concerned that no one will contact me, and that I won't be able to be productive here in the states ever again.
To add insult to injury I took the 3rd degree felony situation that I am in as a plea deal to avoid making matters worse when I could not prove my innocence. I will say this for the justice system and those that do not know about it (as I was naieve initially also) ....that once you have any kind of negative associations with the judicial system it is absolutely exhausting to have to prove to people that you are not the "monster" or "criminal" that they think you are and that everyone deserves a second chance.
I did not go to prison, nor was I even on probation for more than a couple of weeks. I was just given an adjudication withheld status and told not to get into any more trouble, finger printed, and told that I could not profit from my experience.
I hope that someone in my newly relocated area can tell me where to go for employment so that I can take care of my family.
Before sounding overly negative and full of doom and gloom, I do want to give thanks to God that I am alive, with people that love me, and for finding this site as I desperately needed some form of life line when I happened across it.
In this day of technology, people forget how to use a phone book. I work at a halfway house, and I have my clients pick up a phone book, and start making phone calls. The question to ask is "Do you hire people with a felony?”, and “Are you hiring now.” Not everyone will, but all of my clients that are willing and able to work are able to find jobs in two to three weeks.
Also, if you are not picky, most telemarketing companies are felon friendly.
I have been out of prison now just a little over six years after serving nearly 21 years. I am on parole until the year 2057 unless they change it. Since I have been out I have earned a BS and started on my Masters degree. Until recently I have held some good jobs, all of which knew that I was an ex-felon. I know that the road ahead is rough and at the present moment they look very bleak, but regardless of how difficult it is or becomes I will never turn back to any form of crime, because I know that it is not the World that owes me but I who owe the world. I may be homeless in a short while, yet I will do what ever I can that is legal to prevent this.
I just wanted to say a few words about not giving up, I remember looking at the ceiling of my cell and thinking "this is where I am going to spend the rest of my life." I decided then that if that was the case then I needed to make the world a better place, and the only way I could do this was by doing the "right thing." I may not always know what the "right thing " is, but I always know what the "wrong thing" is, and as long as I don't do the wrong thing, I am doing the right thing.
My best to everyone regardless of backgrounds.
Tom
You forgot Labor Ready. I used to manage one of their top 5 offices in the nation. I needed some workers to go to help build a local prison--one of the requirements was that none of the employees could be felons. Out of about 100-110 employees, I had 3 qualify. Nice.
I am a convicted felon and am looking to pursue a nursing degree. If anyone has any ideas about how to go about this let me know. Nursing schools won't accept you once they do a background check because a hospital won't let you in to do clinicals. Contact me at elanddoris@hotmail.com
I am a convicted felon and have been looking for work in my area. I haven't been able to find anything that will even give me a second look. I am still looking. In two years the justice system is going to take my felony to a mis. but what am I supposed to do until then. I have three children that I have to provide for and one that I am paying child support for (that I can't afford.) all I can say now is please GOD help me.
I'm a small business owner after comitting a crime when I was eighteen, I robbed a store with a bee bee gun. This biggest mistake of my life. After doing five years and walking off 3 years of prorole, I'm still trying to provide a better life for myself thru hard work and self education. I have create so much for myself but I must confess it's been very hard but the last four years have been better then the first five. I'm just hoping for a better economny soon! If they don't want to give you a job create one.
Matthew it is good to hear that you were able to overcome your situation the economy has a big effect on those looking for work and like you mentioned people need to get creative and become their own boss.
I am happy to have ready everyone's entries and agree one mistake should not ruin a person's life forever. I am a convicted felon since three weeks after I turned 18. It is ridiculous because many ex offenders were very young at their time of convictions and now have a very difficult time. It is worse for the economy because many resort back to crime and are unable to find work. Hence, they end back in prison and cause higher taxes when they could be paying taxes and benefitting society. This is very sad indeed.
Poetic Knight says:
2 years ago
This is a very good idea and it is something that should be instituted in every state and province in North America. I know that there are agencies that cater to people who are listed as "Felons". But we must face the facts that most employers do not consider people with records a good a investment for their company. In most cases that is a very common and very wrong assumption. In most cases. People make mistakes and those mistakes should not be considered as all a person is!
That is a weekness in society that we should try to avoid. I had a friend who commited a crime out of anger and on the spur of the moment. He should have thought things out first, but we all know that sometimes our anger (or depression or anxiety or even our over eagerness) does the thinking for us. Should we condem a person for acting prematurly? No! as I said we as human thinking beings make mistakes. We should consider what it would be like for us if we were in the same situation. If I made a criminal mistake, I would hope that After I did my time or probation or what ever I did to make ammends, I would be given the same opportunity that anyone else would have. The exception would be for a continuous repeat offender. Habitual criminals aside, most breakers of the law are usually the same as you and I. Your suggestion that companies be advertised as "felon friendly" may be detrimental to their business. Wrong or right, that is usualy the case. However, payrole and probation officers should make it their mandate to be as knowledgable as possible about "Felon Friendly" employers so they, through word of mouth, have the inside info for their clients. The Government and legal institutes should have lists available on request and companies should have their names added if they do not discriminate against felons. I applaud you for your insight in this reguard and as always I will keep your hubs on my Fav list.
PK